SCCM Pod-168 CCM: Managing End-Stage Liver Disease

Ali Al-Khafaji, MD, MPH, is the lead author of an article published in the May 2011 Critical Care Medicine titled, “Critical Care Management of Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease.” The literature review showed that managing complications of end-stage liver disease requires awareness and expertise among physicians from a wide variety of fields. Authors present their recommendations for the neurologic, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, renal, and infectious complications of end-stage liver disease. Al-Khafaji is an associate professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of the Transplant Intensive Care Unit at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Category: CCM Podcast